Fuel switches cut off just before deadly Air India crash, early report says

Fuel switches cut off just before deadly Air India crash, early report says

Preliminary investigation does not apportion blame for Boeing 787 crash that killed 260 people in June. Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, according to a preliminary report. The report, issued by […]

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Vivian Spohr, wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, involved in fatal car accident in Italy

Vivian Spohr, wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, involved in fatal car accident in Italy

The wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said on Friday she was “at the complete disposal” of Italian judicial authorities following the death of a 24-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle in Sardinia. Local media reports said Vivian Spohr was at the wheel of an SUV that was in collision with a pedestrian

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Gunmen in Pakistan kidnap, kill nine bus passengers, officials say

Gunmen in Pakistan kidnap, kill nine bus passengers, officials say

Separatist Baloch fighters have in past claimed responsibility for attacks in the southwestern Balochistan province. Nine bus passengers have been killed after gunmen kidnapped them in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, officials have said. The passengers were taken from several buses on Thursday evening, the provincial government spokesman, Shahid Rind, said on Friday. The bus

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Japan raises concern over Chinese fighter jet flights

Japan raises concern over Chinese fighter jet flights

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has demanded China stop flying its fighter jets abnormally close to Japanese intelligence-gathering aircraft, which it said was happening repeatedly and could cause a collision. Japan’s Defense Ministry said a Chinese JH-7 fighter-bomber flew as close to 30 meters (98 feet) to a YS-11EB electronic-intelligence aircraft of the Japan Air Self-Defense

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Son of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ set for guilty plea in US trafficking case

Son of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ set for guilty plea in US trafficking case

Ovidio Guzman Lopez plans to change his not guilty plea during a hearing after arrest in 2023. A son of the infamous Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to plead guilty in a wide-ranging United States drug trafficking case at a court hearing in Chicago. Court records for Ovidio Guzman Lopez

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Is suspending asylum requests the right way to curb immigration? | Migration News

Is suspending asylum requests the right way to curb immigration? | Migration News

Athens warns it will now arrest people entering Greece without authorisation from North Africa. Greece has suspended asylum applications for people arriving by sea for three months. That has come about after a large rise in the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to the Greek island of Crete. Athens wants to

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Ukrainian intelligence officer shot dead in Kyiv in apparent assassination

Ukrainian intelligence officer shot dead in Kyiv in apparent assassination

CNN  —  An Ukrainian Security Service officer was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination. A spokesperson for the service told CNN that an SBU officer was killed in Kyiv and that investigation into the assassination was underway. The SBU did not release any further details

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Top US, Russia diplomats discuss Ukraine, Syria and Iran on ASEAN sidelines

Top US, Russia diplomats discuss Ukraine, Syria and Iran on ASEAN sidelines

Rubio and Lavrov ‘confirmed their mutual desire to find peaceful solutions to conflicts’, Russian Foreign Ministry says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have held rare face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting in Malaysia, discussing the war in Ukraine, as well as developments in Iran and

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Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders meet for peace talks in UAE

Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders meet for peace talks in UAE

Draft deal to end bitter decades-long conflict agreed 4 months ago, but timeline for sealing it remains uncertain. The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks in the United Arab Emirates after nearly four decades of conflict. The meeting in Abu Dhabi on Thursday between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President

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Socialists to support von der Leyen in no-confidence vote after she backs down on EU budget – POLITICO

Socialists to support von der Leyen in no-confidence vote after she backs down on EU budget – POLITICO

“S&D has achieved the inclusion of ESF+ [European Social Fund] in next MFF [the EU’s long-term budget, known as the multiannual financial framework] ― a major win for people across Europe,” said a group spokesperson. “Yesterday the ESF+ was out of the MFF. Today it is in it, thanks to the firmness of the S&D

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